It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest, and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.


Adventures of Ideas (1933)

Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a...

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a...

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a...

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a...